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Snap launches its first drone

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Post by throitallaway »

genidoi wrote: post #109
ryan_j_naughton wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Destruction of light/sound pollution sources in places otherwise free of such pollution is totally morally justified IMO. What do you mean by "destruction"? If you mean actually breaking someone's speaker, then you're wrong and fundamentally don't understand externalities. If you read the original Pigouvian and Coasian theory behind externalities, you'll realize that inherent to the nature of an externality is each…

I don't see how there are 'sides' to this. Blasting a BT speaker with your music, which the majority of people aren't likely to enjoy because of the huge variety of peoples taste in music, is a uniquely selfish thing to do. I don't know about you, but blasting my Spotify likes on a BT speaker in a crowded, and particularly an enclosed environment, would not be an enjoyable experience. I can imagine it's only enjoyabl…

Go to any nature area with hiking trails near decent population centers and you're likely to encounter this. If you want to "enjoy" music while in nature, wear headphones... I'd rather hear birds, the wind hitting leaves, approaching wildlife, etc. I don't want to hear your shitty music from 40 feet away.

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Post by spiderice »

chimen wrote: post #79

Just what the world needed. Another annoying device out in the sky to fly over your fence, in your yard, in the park, cinemas, public places, restaurants, concerts, at the beach or...in your face.

We must be living in different worlds. The number of times I've been annoyed by a drone is.. 0. The rare times I even do see someone fly a drone I think, "Oh cool, someone having fun fly a drone".

I think learning to enjoy life and not getting smugly annoyed by the tiniest of inconveniences is a trait that people need to practice.

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Post by badwolf »

malauxyeux wrote: post #40
andrewgioia wrote: post #12

I think this is such a fun/playful idea, kudos to Snap! Their first hardware product pretty much bombed but this is oddly one of the first consumer tech toys in a while that I've felt I wanted. I can definitely see this being a fun thing to bring out in the backyard or to cookouts/parties, especially as a dad with young kids too. A couple things I'd be a bit worried about: * Battery life would need to last long enoug…

> Would there be an audible hum in the video it records from the 4x propellers? And for those who are at the beach just trying to enjoy a little time away from the city. The folks at the beach near me are already fed up with ubiquitous Bluetooth speakers.

5-8 flights up to ~30 seconds each. I think that's pretty acceptable, vs a constant buzzing

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Post by jyrkesh »

genidoi wrote: post #109
ryan_j_naughton wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Destruction of light/sound pollution sources in places otherwise free of such pollution is totally morally justified IMO. What do you mean by "destruction"? If you mean actually breaking someone's speaker, then you're wrong and fundamentally don't understand externalities. If you read the original Pigouvian and Coasian theory behind externalities, you'll realize that inherent to the nature of an externality is each…

I don't see how there are 'sides' to this. Blasting a BT speaker with your music, which the majority of people aren't likely to enjoy because of the huge variety of peoples taste in music, is a uniquely selfish thing to do. I don't know about you, but blasting my Spotify likes on a BT speaker in a crowded, and particularly an enclosed environment, would not be an enjoyable experience. I can imagine it's only enjoyabl…

Yeah, because you defined a line where the vast majority of people would agree.

But you can slide the line over to a point where people would be more split on the issue. E.g. say you're alone on a public beach playing your music, and one other person walks up to also enjoy the beach and who doesn't want to hear your music. Should you turn off the music? Is there a db level that's acceptable? Should the other person be required to find a quieter spot further down the coast? Or should you have to relocate to an empty spot?

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Post by sithadmin »

8bitben wrote: post #91
mips_avatar wrote: post #30

I think it's interesting how much the FAA's 250 gram rule has impacted drone manufacturing. Even if it was technically possible I couldn't imagine a company like SNAP launching a drone like this in the previous regulatory grey area of drones.

If you do anything with this drone that is commercial or non-private in nature, you still need a Part 107 certificate from the FAA to fly it. I expect that would include many influencers who wouldn't otherwise be flying drones at all.

If you do anything with this drone at all, you'll be flat out violating FAA regulations regardless. It seems to be mostly autonomous, and based on marketing and support docs, doesn't appear to have a way to comply with regulations requiring the Pilot-in-Command to always have the ability to make flightpath changes. Gesturing at it or clicking a button on a phone to 'return to home' is not enough.

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Post by jpatt »

I think this may be the first casual consumer drone on the market compatible with the FAA's Operations Over People guidelines released last year: https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over.... Before this, all flight over people required a waiver by the FAA.

Drones under 250g, like the DJI Mini 2 would qualify as a Category 1 craft, allowing non-sustained flight over people and vehicles, but there was an element that the craft not have exposed blades capable of lacerating human skin, which the DJI Mini 2 fails.

Pixy is 101g and looks to have an enclosed rotor design: https://support.pixy.com/hc/en-us/articles/5039928089236-Pix...

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Post by hacker_newz »

fredley wrote: post #5
deanc wrote: post #4

What on earth is this pivot? From ephemeral messenger into camera sunglasses and a drone?

> Snap Inc. is a camera company. > We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. https://snap.com/

A camera company with terrible camera quality.

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Post by TecoAndJix »

ForrestN wrote: post #118

This is one of those moments where the thing itself as it exists now doesn't excite me, but you can already tell the next several iterations (maybe by a different company) could start to get really exciting. Having a little, quiet drone following you that can record things or communicate information to you via voice commands or beam live video to your phone might be really useful. No more getting lost! Just head up a…

Just like LapTrap from the ClueFinders kids games! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ClueFinders https://cluefinders.fandom.com/wiki/LapTrap#:~:text=LapTrap%...).
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